People once praised a gifted child as a qilin son.
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麟 is bound and forms 麒麟, a benevolent mythical beast that appears only in times of peace. The phrase 凤毛麟角 — 'phoenix feathers and qilin horns' — means something extremely rare and precious.
The deer radical on the left, a pictograph of an antlered deer. The qilin was imagined as a deer-bodied creature, so the deer radical marks this mythical-animal name. It groups 麟 with 麒 and 麋.
